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A Korean Manhwa by Ko Ya Sung, Redrum 327 (usually read as three two seven) deals with what happens when what should be a normal weekend getaway rapidly descends into a night of murder, as a dark past comes to haunt our seven protagonists. Worse yet, this is nothing supernatural, but a work of human hands.

The story starts with a somewhat unstable combination of the following seven characters, headed off to a remote holiday house far away fom the city (pictured right).

Tropes in this work:

Arranged Marriage: Ha and Jueun. Both are conflicted on how they feel about it. Ha plays around with girls, all of whom annoy him, and he wants some form of relationship with Jueun, who turned into an Ice Queen due to him never trying to accept her as a possible girlfriend.

Fingore: The vague flashbacks to Gahui's past involve her hands being bloodied and bandaged. She had tried to escape the safe she had been locked in for six days, tearing her finger nails off.

Forgotten Birthday: Gahui forgets her birthday, as everybody else planned a party for her. Turns out it wasn't her birthday.

Girl in a Box: Gahui was locked in a safe as a child by the rest of the cast (minus Gihu) and left to die. She was found six days later; there was a hole on the top that meant, when it rained, she was getting frozen.

Kids Are Cruel: Hyeri, in order to eliminate competition, decided that the best way to deal with Gahui is to gather Jeongun, Ha Park and Jueun to lock Gahui up in an abandoned safe in the middle of a forest, where Gahui ended up being trapped for six days, with two of those days raining. How old were they when this happened, you ask? They were only eight years old!

Lampshaded.

Gihu: "There is nothing more dangerous than a child's mind."

Karma Houdini: Played straight initially, later subverted. If Gihu did not go all knight templar on the rest of the group for what they did to Gahui this would have been played straight. Arguably also deconstructed, because despite not being punished by the law that secret left a huge scar on the group's personality.

Karmic Death: Hyeri is left bound in a freezer, a direct reflection on her locking Gahui in a safe as a child.

Knight Templar: It seemed unlikely for anyone to be so. It's later revealed to be Gihu.

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